This rape victim had been molested for most of her young life when a family friend (the one who had been molesting her) abducted her at 13 and held her captive inside a hotel room while he sexually abused her and prostituted her out for a period 104 days to random men who were old enough to be her father.
To avoid confusion, I would like to clarify this statement. I've noticed that a lot of the details I mentioned above are left out of the article (probably to keep it short...here is the
youtube video from that interview which appears to be a segment on a piece about kidnapped victims). In the I Survived... episode, however, she goes into greater detail and explains that her captor ran out of money, so he prostituted her out in order to pay the bills. If someone else has seen this episode, they can confirm this for me. Regardless, it doesn't change a thing. Ppl should read the comments from that article.
For some, such as Jessyca, the scars of rape don't mend overnight or even after a lifetime. They remain with people forever and a day in most cases. This isn't something that just "goes away" on its own (most need several years of counseling afterward), or a month later it is never thought of again and life returns to normal as if nothing's ever happened. It doesn't work like that. This isn't even something that just affects a SINGLE person either. It is also
equally hard (if not more so) on their loved ones (ie husband, father, mother, boyfriend).
Case and point.
Therefore, if anyone is this shallow about rape and can simply gloss over all of these factors without blinking an eye whenever they shell out purely speculative, unfounded judgments about abortions then they don't deserve an opinion on this matter PERIOD. It is easy to become self-righteous and snooty when viewing rape, abortion, the Bible, God and Christ in the abstract.
That's the only way anyone can ever fix their mouth to spout such ignorant crap like Abortion should
NOT be an option, the baby has a right to live
NO matter what,
NO Christian should say abortion is acceptable for
ANY reason, abortion has
NO place in a Christian. People are tone deaf for real.
All of those declarations also prohibit abortions in ALL cases of medical emergencies, yet they fail to realize how ignorant that sounds (mostly bc they aren't that well-versed in scripture, I presume). I want to use another word that starts with an r but I don't want to take it there. But, Geesh!!! it is hard to bite ur tongue sometimes. I'll just say it seems like others are operating on a pure lack of common sense, but some say common sense is not that common, so I digress.
I vaguely recall that a similar story made headlines a couple of years ago (it was reported on the View) when a doctor decided to terminate a pregnancy in order to save a mother of
three. And her three children were very young, so should they
automatically be robbed of a mother and raised as orphans? Or should a newly wedded husband be forced to lose his wife without a second option? Should other family members be burdened with an
additional set of four, when they already have families of their own? What if this mother doesn't have any other family at all, should those four just go to the state then? What if it was genetic (which some miscarriages and conditions are), and it happened in the family more than once? It would just be a clan of cousins before u know it. No mom around. She's dead.
Talk about dehumanizing/devaluing human life. The double standards are ridiculous. It would be ironic if any of these self-righteous folks found themselves in these predicaments years later. I wonder how they'd respond then
.
Instead of viewing these concepts (rape, abortion, the Bible, etc) in the abstract, people should apply concrete reality to all of those circumstances, then they might change their opinion on things altogether. Put a face to it, a name to it, an
age to it (one of the commentators reported being raped at 7...and I even recall a story of a man going to jail for sexually assaulting his 3 month old <<< BANANAS CRAZY!!!!!!). Don't simply pick and choose verses that suit u or reword scripture to meet ur needs. I personally feel this situation can easily remedy itself if people stopped over romanticizing God and Christ and took the Word of God
as is NOT 'well, what I want it to say is...'
rhetoric. So they chastise reasonable responders who say stuff like it might be mentally, emotionally and spiritually damaging and scarring to carry a child 9 months after such an offense (which is very reasonable btw) or I'm a man and I can't tell a woman what to do with her body (another very, very reasonable response and it is coming from a 21 year old male. that's very wise). 
